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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What simile is used to describe Salvatore's hands when he is not bathing his children?
(a) Like loaves of bread.
(b) Like legs of mutton.
(c) Like bricks.
(d) Like clouds.

2. What did Salvatore do for work when he was not fishing after he married and had children?
(a) Rode a horse and buggy.
(b) Worked on his father's vineyard.
(c) Cooked for a wealthy family.
(d) Taught school.

3. What was Assunta able to purchase for Salvatore if they married?
(a) A horse and buggy.
(b) A boat and a home.
(c) A new suit.
(d) A gold watch.

4. What work does Salvatore do when he settles home after returning from military service?
(a) He works with his mother cleaning houses.
(b) Fishing and working on his father's vineyard.
(c) He refused to work and just hangs out on the beach.
(d) He works as a cook for a wealthy family.

5. Who does Salvatore cry to when he returns home after learning he is not to be married to the girl he loved?
(a) His mother.
(b) His brother.
(c) His father.
(d) His best friend.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Salvatore tell his mother about Assunta?

2. What does Assunta seem always to by touched by regarding Salvatore?

3. How is Assunta described physically?

4. How many children did Assunta and Salvatore have?

5. How is Salvatore's laughter described when he bathes his child?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Assunta described after she and Salvatore marry? What does she look like? What type of person is she?

2. What did Salvatore do for work after he and Assunta married?

3. How did Salvatore's family learn he was not going to marry the girl he loved?

4. Describe Salvatore washing his babies near the end of the story?

5. Though Salvatore found Assunta physically unattractive, what could she offer him if they married?

6. Why does Salvatore understand that the girl he loves will not marry him?

7. What does the narrator say he set out to do in the story?

8. What would Salvatore do if his rheumatism became too bad for him to work?

9. What did Salvatore's fiancé tell him "with the blunt directness of her race" (5) when he went to see her at her home after he returned rom military service?

10. What happened to Assunta's fiancé?

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